I read "Zen Shorts" with 5th graders last year. We read and discussed each
of the parables. Then I told the students to pick one of the parables and
apply it to something that had happened in their own life. They wrote an
essay on it and then typed their documents in Word and illustrated them.



Week 1
Library orientation - layout - checkout procedures - Big Mac

Week 2
Destiny review

Week 3
Early on review shelving fictionbooks
For future years review dewey and shelving non fiction


Content/Concepts
Essential Questions
Skills
Assessments
ND Standards